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I 'INSULATOR FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 266,552. Patented Oct. 24, 1882.

INVENTOR:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH SYNAR, OF HONESDALE, PA, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-THIRDS TO HENRY B. SYNAR, OF SAME PLACE, AND JOHN '1. SYNAE, OF GREEN RIDGE, PA.

INSULATOR FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,552, dated October 24, 1882.

Application filed April '29, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SYNAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Honesdale, in the county of Wayne, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful lmprovementin Insulators for Pianos, Melodeons, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is atop or plan view of the insulator embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is aside elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the several figures.

My invention consists ofinsulators on which the legs of a piano, melodeon, or other similar instrument are rested, formed of hollow bodies, whereby the resonance of the instrument is vastly increased in quality and volume, as

will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a hollow body, formed of glass or other material suitable for insulation, having its top wall depressed centrally, as at at, to receive the bottom of a leg of a musical instrument of the order of pianos, ln6l0(lQ()l1S,&G.,6lCll leg resting on one ofthe insulators, directly on the bottom there- (No model.)

of, the base of the depression being removed, said bottom beingconstructed sut'ticiently durao ble to sustain the weight.

It will be seen that the insulators remove theinstrument from contact with the floor, and thus prevent the tloor from acting as a direct conductor otthe sound. Thisprescrves the sound and renders the quality thereot' sweet and soft, obviatingharshness, and owing to the hollow form of the insulators the volume of sound is vastly increased, the escape thereof being permitted by the space existing be- 0 tween the central depression, a, and the leg of the musical instrument.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An insulator or support for the legs of pianos and other musical instruments, lormed ot' a hollow sounding body, A, having its top wall depressed centrally, the base of said depression being removed, so as to allow the leg of the instrument to rest on the b0 tom wall of said body, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH SYNAR.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, R. STOCKTON TIoE. 

